Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receiving sets, were later "licensed" (for a royalty) to 34 receiving set manufacturers, 14 tube manufacturers. Almost immediately, the U. S. Government looked askance at these practices as possible violations of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Although in 1928, after prolonged investigation, the Federal Trade Commission dismissed a complaint against Radio on this score, the Department of Justice continued to hear protests from "independent" producers...
...francs to corrupt poor Paris clerks, then the Government of France should act to protect the national interest. Roundly M. Poiret swore that there was only one means by which photostatic copies of his books could have been obtained-burglary, as bold as ever was committed. He filed formal complaint "against persons unknown" before a Judge d'Instruction, who expressed indignation, issued an order bidding the Paris police to "find and apprehend these miscreants...
...some 400 of his works, most of which had been executed before the age of puberty. Excited dilettantes were lauding even the most execrable of the daubs. Revolted, Artist Picasso charged last week that the material had been obtained from his mother in Barcelona under false pretenses, filed a complaint charging fraud against persons unnamed, caused the Galeries Georges Bernheim and the Galeries Zak to be invaded by gendarmes who removed the offensive juvenilia...
...test" suggested by Subscriber Lyman Richards of Boston reminds me of a sworn-to-be-true story heard recently at dinner. It does not concern Fiddler Kreisler, nor a Blind sign and cup hung on any famed musician. But it is a thrust, I think, against Mr. Richards' complaint of a widespread musical hypocrisy and his statement that people "impressed by the eminence of artists claim to appreciate what they neither enjoy nor understand...
...regular) Republican, plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler''), candidate for a second term. Intense, eloquent, bushy-headed like his father, Brother Phil inaugurated his Progressive leadership by trying to drive a spike of corruption into the candidacy of Governor Kohler. Last year he signed a court complaint, helped to amass evidence, that Governor Kohler had grossly violated the Wisconsin Corrupt Practices Act by excessive campaign expenditures to secure the Republican nomination and election...